{"name":"Observer","challenge_rating":"","species":"Beholder ","sub_species":"Beholder","size":"Medium","type":"Aberration","hit_dice":"8d8+44 (108hp)","speed":"5 ft., fly 20 ft. (good)","abilities":"Str 10, Dex 6, Con 18, Int 17, Wis 15, Cha 15","special_qualities":"flight","environment":"Any","organization":"Solitary","treasure":"Standard","alignment":"Lawful Neutral","advancement":"","level_adjustment":"","skills":"Hide +12, Listen +18, Search +21, Spot +22, Survival +2 (+4 following tracks), and knowledge (psionics) +17","feats":"Alertness; Flyby Attack; Great Fortitude; Improved Initiative; Iron Will","initiative":"+6","armor_class":"24 (-1 size, -2 Dex, +15 natural), touch 8, flat-footed 22","base_attack":"+2","attack":"Eye rays +2 ranged touch and bite +7 melee","full_attack":"Eye rays +2 ranged touch and bite +7 melee (2d4)","space_reach":"10 ft.\/5 ft.","special_attacks":"Blood drain, gaze, psionics","saves":"Fort +9, Ref +5, Will +19","imageid":"","description":"Psychokinesis \u2014 Science: telekinesis; Devotions: animate object, inertial barrier.\r\n\r\nPsychometabolism \u2014 Sciences: nil; Devotions: body control, cause decay, chameleon power, double pain.\r\n\r\nTelepathy \u2014 Sciences: domination, mind link, probe; Devotions: attraction, aversion, contact, ESP, invisibility, mind bar, phobia amplification.\r\n\r\nMetapsionics \u2014 Science: psychic surgery; Devotions: psionic sense, psionic drain.\r\n\r\nPrimes always seem surprised to learn that there are observers that lair on the Outlands and lawful planes, but it only stands to reason that a monster so widespread as the beholder would\u2019ve spawned planar offspring. Observers are a lot like the other beholder-kin, concealing a frightening alien intelligence and fearsome magical powers behind a chitinous body. Unlike their more rapacious prime-material kin, observers adhere to a cool neutrality and are often content to leave well enough alone. (\u2019Course, that doesn\u2019t help the Clueless sod who attacks one of these things, taking it to be a beholder.)\r\n\r\nAn observer has a spherical body about 6 to 7 feet in diameter, covered with a tough, chitinous shell. The shell\u2019s a mottled purple and pinkish color, and can be 2 to 3 inches thick in places. Unlike beholders, observers have three mouths spaced evenly around their lower hemisphere, and three main eyes spaced evenly around their equator. Six minor eyes on stalks ring their dorsal surfaces. Observers support their bodies by means of an innate levitation ability.\r\n\r\nObservers often create small empires or tyrannies, using their magical and psionic abilities to take control of regions and order them to their own will. Observers are generally more passive than their beholder cousins, and fight only when directly attacked. Unless it\u2019s physically threatened, an observer\u2019s usually content to use negotiation and manipulation to achieve its ends.\r\n\r\nCombat: \r\nThe observer\u2019s main body is AC -2, but its mouths, main eyes, and eyestalks are not as well-armored; they\u2019re only AC 2. The loss of these organs doesn\u2019t count against the obewer\u2019s own hit points. The main eyes can withstand 10 points of damage each, the eyestalks 5 points of damage, and the mouths 15 points of damage before being destroyed.\r\n\r\nThe observer\u2019s mouths actually consist of powerful, reractable stalks that can reach things up to 5 feet from the main body. If the observer\u2019s mouth hits with a roll 4 or more greater than the attack roll needed, it fastens to the victim and begins to drain blood at the rate of 2 hit points per round. When possible, the observer will divide its attacks to drair as nany victims as it can.\r\n\r\nAlthough the observer\u2019s attacks are formidable, they pale in comparison to its magical abilities. Each of the creature\u2019s main eyes projects a powerhl ray of telekinetic force that can have one of three effects: First, it can simulate Bigby\u2019s forceful hand, driving back one creature at the rate of 20 feet per round. Creatures weighing up to 500 pounds can be so affected, and creatures between 500 and 1,000 pounds cannot advance closer to the observer while its gaze remains on them. Creatures over 1,000 pounds can advance only at the speed of 10 feet per round. Second, the gaze of the main eyes can be used to strike telekinetic blows inflicting damage equal to 1d12 points plus the victim\u2019s AC. Third, it can automatically deflect all physical missiles fired at the creature from the 120 degree arc in front of the eye. The main eyes have a range of 100 yards.\r\n\r\nEach of the six smaller eyes can create the following effects against a single target:\r\n\r\ndomination (30-yard range)\r\nenervation (30-yard range)\r\nfear (50-yard range)\r\nfinger of death (30-yard range)\r\nmagic missile (3 missiles, 50-yard range)\r\nOtiluke\u2019s freezing sphere (cold ray inflicts 8d4+16 points of damage)\r\nThe powerful eyes of observers are the equivalent of a true seeing spell to a range of 100 yards, except that the monster can\u2019t determine alignment by sight. This means they can\u2019t be deceived by illusions or invisibility.\r\n\r\nAs if these weren\u2019t enough to lay any sod in the deadlook, observers are also powerful psionicists, in possession of potent telepathic and psychokinetic abilities. An observer usually relies on its magical abilities first, but should those fail or a subtler means of attack be required, it\u2019ll fall back on mental attacks. Observers enjoy experimenting with telepathic attacks against nonpsionic creatures and take a fiendish pleasure in permanently wrecking a foolish opponent\u2019s psyche.","jsondata":"","tags":"","templateId":"4842","blockId":"1386132","world":"ceefbea4-4979-4620-9336-f87037beb5f1","folder":"","isShared":"on"}